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Matlab codes to (set) identify the poverty rates as discussed in
"Labor Market Participation, Marriage and Individual Welfare" 
by Laurens Cherhcye, Bram De Rock and Khushboo Surana. 
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* Bounds on male and female poverty rates can be obtained by using the matlab code 'main_povrate.m'. It uses the selected sample as input ('Data.mat'). 
* This script uses three matlab functions.
* 1)'get_consideration_sets.m' which defines the set of potential partners.
* 1)'get_indices.m' which computes the minimum stability indices needed to rationalize the data. 
* 2)'get_povrate.m' uses the outputs of 'get_indices.m' and gives the bounds on poverty rates. 
* The results are stored in file 'DataPSID_results_povrate_5cat_size100_iter100_Cluster1.mat'. 